[Freeipa-users] Can't use "ipa" commands on brand new ipa server instance

[Bret Wortman]

Oh, I like that idea. A lot.

On 04/28/2014 03:31 PM, Bill Peck wrote:
> Let me guess, ipa logs you out so you can go have a beer?
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Simo Sorce <simo at redhat.com 
> <mailto:simo at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 14:05 -0400, Bret Wortman wrote:
>     > On 04/28/2014 01:53 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
>     > >> On 04/28/2014 01:32 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
>     > >>> On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 13:25 -0400, Bret Wortman wrote:
>     > >>>> On 04/28/2014 01:19 PM, Bret Wortman wrote:
>     > >>>>> I just got a new ipa server instantiated and haven't actually
>     > >>>>> installed any users or hosts on it yet. No replicas. No
>     migrated data.
>     > >>>>>
>     > >>>>> Yet when I run any "ipa" commands from the command line,
>     it behaves
>     > >>>>> exactly as our older, troubled servers do and exits the
>     login session
>     > >>>>> immediately, whether I'm connected at the console or via
>     ssh. Further,
>     > >>>>> when I run strace to try to capture what might be going
>     on, the
>     > >>>>> behavior stops. "Script" also prevents commands from
>     exiting, but this
>     > >>>>> is really disconcerting. I was chalking this up to the
>     fact that our
>     > >>>>> database had become corrupted by our replication problems,
>     but now I'm
>     > >>>>> thinking it might be environmental, though our original
>     IPA servers
>     > >>>>> are running F18 and this new instance is F20.
>     > >>>>>
>     > >>>>> I need some stability here, and CLI is part of that. What
>     might be
>     > >>>>> causing the CLI to not work at all when coupled to a TTY
>     device, as
>     > >>>>> that seems to be the critical piece? Could this be related
>     to the
>     > >>>>> servers being VMs?
>     > >>>>>
>     > >>>> BTW, we have this running on F20 on a different network and
>     it works
>     > >>>> just fine. The network on which the failures are occurring
>     isn't
>     > >>>> internet-connected; is there something that's trying to
>     connect back to
>     > >>>> redhat?
>     > >>> no.
>     > >>>
>     > >>> What shell do you use ?
>     > > On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 13:43 -0400, Bret Wortman wrote:
>     > >> bash.
>     > > Does it make any difference if you redirect stdin before
>     calling the
>     > > command ?
>     > >
>     > > Simo.
>     > >
>     > No, I found the problem. A "power" user had written a bash
>     function that
>     > redefined "ipa" and dropped it into /etc/profile.d. We're about
>     to have
>     > a little chat.
>
>     lol!
>
>     glad you found it :)
>
>     Simo.
>
>     --
>     Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York
>
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